Recently I've got my chance at getting in touch with a few Japanese superstitions, that are literally present in all situations of the everyday life. And now I'll talk about the one that I've found the weirdest of all so far: the sanrinbo. You see, I moved to a new apartment in another part of Tokyo not long ago, and the originally planned day of moving was a sanrinbo day, so I had to postpone the whole thing. (As I've learned from my girlfriend. :) )...

The reason was that sanrinbo is a very unfortunate day for moving or any activity related to changing one's address. For example it's better not to register your new address on such a day. Even the construction works stop on these days. Because yeah, there're usually a few sanrinbo days every month.

Originally the Japanese had very fortunate days for construction works, but then they seemingly turned into unfortunate days for construction works. Probably thanks to a misinterpretation somewhere in the Edo-age. And then they became very unfortunate days for moving. :D (Probably because the average Japanese person doesn't build houses, only moves to a new one. :P)

But which are the sanrinbo days? There's some sophisticated method for calculating it, similar to Easter, but fortunately we have the Internet, where you can check all days in 2017 and 2018 when it's best not to build any houses or move or things like that. :) (The link is obviously Japanese, but if you know that 月 means month and 日 means day, it's easy to decode that 10月22日 means the 22nd of October.)

Many of you have asked me to write about Japan, how's my life here, what's happening to me, etc. That's why I've created this blog, here I'll try to share with all of you every important, unimportant, interesting and boring things that I see / hear / experience here.